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...Neill play fail is sometimes as awesome as seeing the Titanic sink. More Stately Mansions, however, is more like a becalmed Flying Dutchman on which trapped passengers spend three hours torturing one another and ranting about their fate. On the spacious stage of Los Angeles' elegant Ahmanson Theater, site of the play's U.S. premiere last week, Mansions stays within hailing distance of the playgoer's interest, but it never gets heartbeat close...
...rehearsals for next week's U.S. premiere of Eugene O'Neill's More Stately Mansions, the leading lady strode to the top row of Los Angeles' new Ahmanson Theater. "This great theater," she proclaimed, "will be filled with O'Neill's beautiful words." In fact, a throbbing contralto was already filling the house. The rehearsing star was Ingrid Bergman, making her first U.S. stage appearance in 21 years...
This year the Broadway season opens in California - at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theater on Sept. 12. The occasion is the U.S. premiere (and pre-New York run) of Eugene O'Neill's More Stately Mansions, his last discovered work and a sequel to A Touch of the Poet. The star is Ingrid Bergman, making her first U.S. stage appearance since 1946. And even if that combination fails to catch on, Broadway abounds with portents for one of the better seasons in years...
Intimate Shane. Inside its drum shape, Becket's Taper Forum boasts a thrust stage surrounded by a semicircle of seats banking gracefully upward for 14 rows. The farthest spectator is just barely 16 yards from the action and the sound is superior. Considering its impressive size, the Ahmanson Theater is also remarkably intimate; as in the trail-blazing Chandler Pavilion, Architect Becket has replaced the traditional shoe-box-shaped auditorium with an almost perfect square. The proscenium is as wide and as high as the walls and ceilings, the stage semithrust...
...openers last week, the Ahmanson mounted Man of La Mancha with the original Broadway leads, and the Taper presented John Whiting's The Devils. Both productions were polished and professional, and the performances were first-rate. Elliot Martin, director of the center's Theater Group, hastens to point out that he is not running a rental hall for touring New York shows. Last week he announced that his first work of the fall season, a more characteristic center production, will be the U.S. premiere of Eugene O'Neill's last play, More Stately Mansions. The star...